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Category Archives: Southern Baptist Convention

The Predicable Surprise of State Conventions

This week, the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention met on the campus of Southwestern Seminary. Earlier this month, I was able to participate in the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists. These experiences have got me thinking: what is the purpose of the state convention... Read More »

Defined by Debt

“Seventy-five thousand dollars.” The words rolled easily off his tongue, landing on my desk with a thud. “My wife and I have $75,000 dollars in student loan debt.” This young man now realized that while the very call of God rested on his life, he was now defined by debt. ... Read More »

The Preaching of SBC14

What type preaching will we hear at the SBC annual meeting? Jason Duesing and myself are teaching a course on the annual meeting of the SBC for students who, most of which, have never been to the SBC.  Dr. Duesing covered the historical question, and I tried to prep them for wha... Read More »

China and the Conservative Resurgence

Sunday I returned from ten days in China meeting some profound workers for the Gospel in some very difficult places. The whole experience reminds of IHOP in 2004. One day in my first semester as a seminary professor, I was eating breakfast with a student who asked to be mentored.... Read More »

Paige Patterson and the Battle for the Blood

Engaging the atonement has been, for Paige Patterson, a long walk in the same direction. As Al Mohler noted in a recent blog, the debate about penal substitution and the atonement had roots in the fertile soil of the seminaries—roots that would expose themselves during the Cons... Read More »

Paige Patterson and the Battle for the Blood

Engaging the atonement has been, for Paige Patterson, a long walk in the same direction. As Al Mohler noted in a recent blog, the debate about penal substitution and the atonement had roots in the fertile soil of the seminaries—roots that would expose themselves during the Co... Read More »